Things have been a bit crazy lately with work and travel lately, so I’m combining a few posts about recent events into one! First, I mostly finished my Silk Spectre II costume, and debuted it at Free Comic Book day with my MN cosplay troop! I also wore the costume to SpringCon two weeks later, and it seemed to go over fairly well. As always, I plan on setting up a shoot to properly show off the costume, and will post a full description and gallery then! For now, enjoy the photos below!

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After years of waiting, Video Games Live finally made its way to Minneapolis in April. This gave me the chance to introduce the concert to family and friends – something I’ve been wanting to do for years.

Friend and VGL host Tommy Tallarico let me help out with the costume contest before the show, so I paraded around in my Mario garb for the entire event. All and all, I enjoyed the concert as much as I did the first four times I attended!

You can check out a handful of pictures from the show below!

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A quick and dirty update! I was recently asked by a fellow MN cosplayer Chris Ross to join him at the midnight debut of Iron Man 2 as Black Widow – to complement his ridiculously impressive Iron Man suit. This costume is very much a “closet cosplay” because I didn’t need to buy much to pull it together. The bodysuit was used for Catwoman/Sydney Savage in the past and the wig came from my Poison Ivy costume. I whipped up the bracers and the belt in a few hours and was done.

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Uber quick update! Awesome pinup artist/fellow Witchblade cosplayer Randi LeeAnn was nice enough to use me as inspiration for her newest piece of art – a tribute to Poison Ivy. This is one of her most impressive pieces, and I say that without bias. The detail work in the hair and leaves is stunning. Check out some progress pictures and the final piece below. Thank you Randi!

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One more quick update for the day, then I am off to San Francisco for a week! After a LONG month working on Game Informer’s Indie Week and the Portal 2 cover story, I took Thursday and Friday off to catch up on some R&R. And attend a convention, naturally.

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Minnesota is known for many things, one of them being the annual Zombie Pub Crawl. I don’t know of other such gatherings across the nation, so I’m going to go ahead and make a totally unverified/bias claim and say that ours is the best Zombie Pub Crawl in the world. Especially because they allow zombie hunters to join in on the fun.

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I’m somehow playing catch-up again, still archiving costumes from SDCC 2009. But better later than never! This costume/project was as much fun as it was work – heaps of both. Considering I had already figured out the mechanics of crafting a Witchblade gauntlet from my prior two costumes, the execution itself wasn’t overly strenuous. It was the organization that got a tad overwhelming.

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Just a quick update to shoot y’all a link over to Comic Impact, where I am currently the Cosplay Girl of the Month! You can check out the full interview there. Be sure to dig through the Cosplay Girl of the Month archive to uncover some more intriguing women of the web! Thanks guys!

I tend to cosplay characters I have an interest in, meaning I will spend full evenings browsing through galleries of my favorite heroines on Deviant Art. A few weeks ago I was catching up on the new Zatanna tributes and was blown away to find a new piece that had more than a slight resemblance to yours truly. When checking through my notes and comments later that night, I realized that a few friends had already given me a heads that the amazingly talented artist Adriana Melo used my mug as reference for a stunning pinup.

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Spring and summer always signal my life dissolving to complete chaos due to the start of convention season. Between work and play – video game events and cosplay opportunities – I am traveling almost every weekend or busy in my basement polishing off a costume. This is my best effort to stay organized in terms of cosplay, by planning ahead what costumes I intend to debut and at what event. Below you will find the cons I plan on attending both locally and nationally, with a few hopefuls thrown in there if I can scrounge up the funds. I also included a skeleton for my photoshoot schedule in 2010.

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